[PL] Newcastle Utd (A): Post Match

[Rigadon]

Disgusting performance. Beaten by a Championship side.

Time for the numpties to turn on individual players

[el matador]

They've had a full week to implement their game plan. We looked leggy and second best today. Still had a couple of opportunities that we should have made more of. It happens.

[Leyton388]

The team selected today was wrong. Benteke just doesn't offer anything up top. He's constantly got his back to goal and unless it's played to feet he's not interested. Moreno again showing his lack of defensive quality.

I wouldn't even give that a 2 out of 10 performance.

[TheElephantMan]

That was terrible. Ibe needs to stop trying so hard, pass when there's a better option available! So wasteful. I'm glad Newcastle got the second goal otherwise it would have felt unjust with our goal being wrongly disallowed.

[Gazmo1]

Lucas and Allen should be nowhere near our starting line up home or away. Benteke isn't what I would call a Liverpool player. We need to address buying a 'world class' central defender who can lead the line for the next 5 years plus.

That performance showed us for where we are at. Short, but we knew this. Klopp is dealing with Rodgers squad and working out what he can and can't do with it. I think he needs to take responsibility for the starting line up today. Some players have signed their exits today in his eyes, I hope.

[RichC]

Klopps team, his tactics, his fault.

Bad day at the office, time to move on.

Disappointing today but it's done, move onto the next game

[gratziani]

Well i would say nodody covered themselves in glory today , every single player was poor.

Hindsight and all that But Lucas and Allen start after midweek and none of the goal scoring forwards do.

We played like last years team for most of the game , sterile and toothless

[I, Ravel Morrison]

Thud.

[Chris]

That was dreadful.

Benteke was woeful, lost loads of battles he should have been winning, movement was ****. Skrtel his cowardly self, must have been about 25 yards deeper than the rest on about 10 different occasions and he ran away from Cisse nearly costing us a goal in the first half. Thankfully there is not a chance Klopp puts up with him past May time.

Lallana not playing was a bit baffling, it's at Anfield he's next to useless and away where he's near unstoppable! Oh well.

[shanks69]

for me it just shows what a mad weekend it has been in the prem and the season on a whole so far.

[Montana]

Bad day at the office. Got a kick up the backside.

We go again next week.

[BootRoom]

Back to the bad of days of ambling through the game and making ****e opposition look good. How the **** Milner stayed on the pitch and our best attacking player, Ibe, was substituted are major mysteries.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Newcastle deserved that win. They outfought and outworked us. Better team on the day unfortunately.


The one positive I take from games like this and the one against Palace is that Klopp will learn plenty about the players he has, and it should give him plenty of food for thought with regards to who he will want to bring in this January and next summer.

[danperkins]

Poor team selection and bad all round display. They deserved it,welcome back down to earth. Typical Liverpool.
Or

Spineless cowards!

[Fosterbloke]

For me it was a lack of gambling on first time forward passes and crosses. We always wanted to bring the ball under control and look up rather than touch it forward.

A lot of balls were underhit or overhit when moving forward and this gave them control back.

A **** day made even ****ter by the fact that 4pm kick-offs are the most awkward for me.

Oh well, we know we're capable of much more, let's hope we don't play like this against Stoke in the semi-finals!